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BELGIUM / Brussels: Wolfgang Tillmans' solo exhibition at WIELS
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until Tuesday May 05 2020

WIELS - Contemporary Art Centre
T : +32 (0)2 340 00 53
Avenue Van Volxemlaan 354
1190 Brussels
Belgium

www.wiels.org/en/exhibitions/1262/Wolfgang-Tillmans

From February the 1st to May the 5th 2020, WIELS presents the first solo exhibition of Wolfgang Tillmans in Belgium.

Tillmans is a world-renowned artist and one of the most influential figures of his generation is known for pushing the limits of photography as an artistic medium. His ambition is nothing less than to capture the world we live in or, as he has said himself, to make pictures that talk about what it feels like to be alive today.

From a large London round-about under construction to the Iranian underground scene, Tillmans invites us on a journey through our here and now, our contemporaneity. He raises the question: when all is said and done, what exactly makes an image, an experience or an act political? As the social rights that were achieved in the course of the 1960s are being called into question, as waves of nationalism close people off into their own bubble, and as irrational beliefs supplant rationality in the way we see and make sense of the world, Tillmans’ project seems more essential and urgent than ever.

Curators: Devrim Bayar and Dirk Snauwaert

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